Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-05-12
IN MONTREAL
" UNITED IRELAND'S EDITOR RECEIVES
AN ENTHUSIASTIC WELCOME.
lie Is Warned Not 10 Insult Lord Landsdowns-
His Response to the League Presidents Ad-
dress Of Wtldome-APplause And Groans
Probable Opposition At Kingston.

| United TrcldRd. left the Grand Central de-
pot in New York, until his arrival here
this morning ut o'clock, his journey was
without Incident.
/ He met and was introduced to Chancey
NJ. Depew, who was on the train The two
gentlemen passed compliments.
II. J. Cloran, President of the National
League of Montreal; F. Donovan, of st.
Andrews Young Mems Society, and p. A.
MuldOon, of the Montreal Post, went down
as dcputation from the Montreal Nation
al League, and boarded the train at st.
Johns, Quebec, about thirty miles from
Montreal Mr.. O'Brien recognized Mr..
Cloran, who was standing on the platform,
and whom he met last year at the Chicago
! Conuention.
Mr.. Cloran, when asked about the feel
ing in Montreal and the rumors of posSi-
BILE disturbance on account of the visit of
the editor of United IreLddd, laughed and
said it was all an eXaggeration. Montreal
is an Irish city" he said, ''and the only
place where it is possible for anything in
the nature of opposition to he offered is
Kingston, where the Orange element is
strong and the feeling bitter
An immense crowd WAS present on the
arrival of the train in this city, and cheer
ed Justify Us Mr.. O'Brien stepped on the
platform. Mr. Cloran then stepped forward
and read an address of welcome.
The Gdedtc editorially
WARYS MR.. O'BIIEN,
who is to speak here tonight, that if he
! insults the Governor General he does it at
his own risk.
IL says that an insult TO Lord Lans-
downe is practically an insult to the
Queen and to the people OF Canada. Can
adams are bound in honor to protect him
and themselves from insult. Mr.. O'Brien
is assuming a serious responsibility.
LAS landlord, we have nothing to do
with Lord Lansdowne,' the Gasctte says.
"The people of Canada are not all Irish
and they have rights which should be re
spected. We greatly fear that if Mr..
O'Brien persists he will provoke feelings
of totally different order from those
which in mis- rash design he contemplated.
Ireland will not be benefited by Mr..
O'Brien's agitation, and an insult TO the
VicerOy on Canada soil will surely be fol-
lowed by deplorable complications
Much excitement prevails over the fear
of a
COUNTER DEMONSTRATION BY THE
ORANGEMEN
and 4 repetition of the riots of 1899.
An Ottawa dispatch says: Mr.. O'Brien
will arrive here Friday night, and the
Irish people are preparing TO give him a
rousing welcome. Among Orangemen
there is no little ill-feeling, and they de
clare that any mOvem mt in the shape of n
demonstration will cause blOodshed. The
anti-Home Rulers have engaged all the
for Saturday night, hoping to spoil the
plans of the Reception Committee, but the
latter have managed to secure the theater
of the Ottawa University for Mr.. OBrien's
lecture. On the return Of the Governor
General a reception will I've rendered him
by the anti-O'Bricn faction.
A dispatch from TosOnto says: The
Orange men are much excited over o. Brien's
proposed visit to this city. 4 delegation of
the Loyal and Patriotic Union, headed by
President Goodwin Smith, last night,
waited upon Mayor Rowland with re-
quest to call a mass meeting Of citizens to
discuss the O'Brien visitation. The Mayor
said he would do 80 and promised to pre-
side at the meeting. lie deprecated the
O'Brien agitation, but his confidence in the
good sense Of the citizens prevented his an
ticlpating any collisions over the visit.
APPLAUSE AND GROANs.
In responding TO the address of welcome
to-day, Mr.. O'Brien, editor OF Tmitcd Ire
iand, spoke as follows:
Mr.. CLORAN AND FELLOW COUNTRY
MEN-Even at this distance / recognize a
good many kindly Irish faces around me.
I am most deeply and sincerely grateful TO
you for these words of kindness and good
will with which you have greeted my ar
rival in this, the principal city of the Do
miniOn. am at n loss for words to ex-
press to you my gratitude for the warmth
with which our fellow COuntrymen arc raj.
lying around me and my friend, Mr.. Kill
hride, in the struggle we are making for
! the poor and oppressed against their eX-
alted and powerful OppressOr. GrOans.
For my part, ! never for one instant
doubted you. never believed, and never
will believe, that the Canadian people,
whose Parliament again and again gave
testimony of their approval Of home rule
and their sympathy with our poor, suffer
! ing people, will refuse me the common fair
play OF a hearing. Applause.
The result Of my visit will, am GER
tain, disappoint the false prophets who
were predicting to the contrary. Re
newed applause. come not 10 offer Of
Tense to any section or class Of the Cana
dian people quite the contrary; ! come
not to meddle with Canadian affairs, not to
deal with the career of Lord LansdOwne az
Governor General, hut as the eIterminatOr
of 500 human beings. Groans
| This being n free country we cannot ex-
pect everybody to agree with us, but be-
! lieve we have such strength of truth and
| Justice upon our side that when all have
heard our story all will be convinced ap-
plausel and that the Canadian people will
stretch out ther hands and save the lives
and properties of these 800 poor tenants Of
| Luggacurran, for both are at this moment
at your mercy and in your hands" ZAP
plause."
There was tremendous rush to shake
| hands with Mr.. O'Brien at the conclusion
of his speech, and on his way TO the car
riages which were in waiting TO drive the
party to the hotel, he was nearly lifted of
his feet. He occupies the same suite Of
rooms that Michael uaviEt and Mr.. Par
nell did when they visited this city. His
first regular speech of the campaign will ce
! delivered at mass meeting in Albert Hall
this evening. So far there is not only no
sign of opposition, but no talk Of it.
MARTINS FERRY.